Author Marko Bauer

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) is a repulsive affair. A hybrid of Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987) and American Pie (Chris and Paul Weitz, 1999) it comes short of the former as well as the latt...

“As nihilism becomes more and more the norm, the symbols of emptiness spread much more terror than those of power do.” – Ernst Jünger One nearly misses Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope, 2011) for the reason abse...

It is a one way street and there, Walter Benjamin says: “What, in the end, makes advertisements so superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon sign says – but the fiery pool reflecting it in the aspha...

A true poet of the cinema, the director of, amongst others, Russian Ark and The Sun, talks philosophy, religion, aesthetics and the Russian soul.

Using interview footage of Sokurov and combining it with other elements, the filmmakers produce a contemplative video-essay on the director.

“The brain is the flesh.” Using ‘Artaud-Deleuze’ as a guide, Marko Bauer traverses the cerebral territory of Gaspar Noé’s film. Enter at your peril.

In this free-form interview the director of A Christmas Tale, King and Queens, amongst others, discusses everything from Truffaut and Godard, Stanley Cavell and disaster movies, Nietzsche and Italo Calvino, Jean Gabin and hip-hop, and more.